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Some catching up to do
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 18/06/2012
» KUALA LUMPUR : Thai and Asean investors looking to tap the region's new frontier market should start to do so right now before the big global big players start to make their move, says a senior executive from Myanmar.
Tapping into consumer power
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 04/06/2012
» TOKYO : The continuing global and regional slowdown will have a very minimal impact on companies that are catering to consumers in Asia or around the world, and some even believe now is the best time to expand their operations in Asian markets.
Stronger Asian bonds
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 04/06/2012
» Japan still has a major role to play in Asia, along with China, India and South Korea, to help build a durable economic and trade alliance that could lead the world, says outgoing Asean Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan.
New ways to sparkle
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 21/05/2012
» Thailand's gem and jewellery industry should start to focus on the rising demand from the Chinese market and look at ways to create closer cooperation between the industries of the two countries, say executives.
Less than sparkling behaviour
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 16/05/2012
» Travelling gives me many experiences, and a recent trip to Shanghai with some ministers and a delegation from one of the country's leading exporters _ the gem and jewellery industry _ was no different.
No turning back
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 14/05/2012
» As Aung San Suu Kyi, new passport in hand, prepares for her first trip out of Myanmar in nearly a quarter century, investors and analysts are flocking in, hoping that recent gestures of democratic reform will prevail.
IVL poised to grow
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/04/2012
» Indorama Ventures Plc (IVL), the world's leading PET maker, is looking to tap the expertise it has gained from years of expansion all over the world to benefit from the formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.
Two-sided challenge
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/04/2012
» China and Asia-Pacific continue to be the focus of the world's pulp and paper industry as producers look to tap the region's rising economic might.
The new paper tigers
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 23/04/2012
» As industry leaders gather this week in Bangkok for the largest gathering of pulp and paper makers in Asia, they face challenging questions about the future of their regional and global industries.
Don't count Europe out
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 09/04/2012
» PHNOM PENH : The European Union, despite the ongoing economic woes of some of its members, is keen to increase its trade and investment into the smaller countries of Asean as it says there is a greater potential for growth in this part of the world.